In a vacuum, the Intrepid is exactly what I picture when you say Starter Ship. It's got 1 of each component (including weapon), all the basic amenities and a well-thought out compact layout. The problem is ofcourse that legacy starters exist. And while I agree with the point that the great Avenger doesn't have these ameneties in the interior, I feel like they still could've done something extra with the Intrepid. An extra S1 shield for a ship that size is pretty much mandatory. Weapon aside, I feel like the cargo capacity is too low. They could widen the starboard cargo lift (reducing the bench's size in the living quarters) for 12 SCU max, of better yet, make is so that we can stack boxes 2 high (which looks like it would be possible if not for the cargo hatch) for 16 SCU (or 24 when implementing both changes). This will be an excellent cargo capacity for a ship this size, without necessarily classing it as a hauler specific starter.

I just hope they bring in a functional Vulcan soon for Pyro. Being able to rearm/refuel/repair will be a lot of fun to offer as a service

Glad I came across this channel! Great stuff..

I do rather enjoy this style of ship review/deep dive. Feels kinda like Morph's Architect Reviews series, but with an eye to features and player experience. Please keep em up 👍

Everyone loves the interior, but it feels claustrophobic

Centre the cockpit, split the S4 back into an S3 either side of the pit. I was really looking forward to a crusader starter but holy heck they messed up so bad with its layout.

I love that the torpedo's are expensive to reload. That forces them to be used in a smart manner, You won't see orgs chasing down a single player with torpedo's using the Polaris, that would be counter-productive.

For me a good starter ship offers: - A bed to log out in, Guns to shoot enemies, & Cargo room that can store small mission boxes as well. - And nice additions would be a weapons rack or weapon slot. An all-rounder starter that is average in everything, but its able to do most basic tasks in-game. You can salvage or mine with a hand-tool, you can do combat missions in space or on land, you can do the smaller cargo missions or trade on your own, and fly to another planet in the same star system or even jump to another. and finally, after a fun day, you can log out anywhere, in your ship's bed. Having an interior is needed for that bed, and people love ship interiors. The old Mustang Beta had one of the best tiny interiors. You give people new to the game access to the starting point of the basic major gameplay loops. (cargo, combat, mine, salvage, explore) The 300i / 100i, Avenger, Cutter, Intrepid, Nomad all offer these. The Aurora, Mustang and Reliant need some updates honestly. The Pices is fine, but without the option for a bed, it's honestly not a starter ship in my eyes. Now to be considered a starter, it also has to be priced decently. Sub $100 to play the game + have the ship, and a $100 is cutting it since you are getting awfully close to a Cutlass, Freelancer and such. I'd say $60-$70 is more of a max since that is what AAA games cost these days. The intrepid might not be my cup of tea when it comes to the exterior, and its not the cup of tea of many, but it offers EVERYTHING a starter needs + a bigger interior than most and it has a suit locker unlike the rest.

I can't wait for more Alien starter ships Banu, and AOPA should be next. I agree with the older starter ships needing polish passes, but I beleive these newer starters are the foundation so that CIG can work on the older ships with ease.

If you cost more than the GOAT, then you should be better in at least a couple categories. The living quarters are the only advantage. It’s worse in every stat.

Star Citizen - becoming what it should be ❤

Game need a ship designed to carry breaching pods and like 25 people or so.

having a 100i as a cargo hauler is a very nice because i kept leaving my doors open and my ship gets hijacked and i can just claim it from a platinum bay terminal lol

I love that there is more variety! And people who are flying it are saying great things.

Great review and I wholly agree. I prefer the focussed starter ships - be it cargo, combat, or some other specific advantage. The Intrepid is a better home than most ships - and I think that's going to become pretty important eventually.

The problem is that the intrepid is a ship intended for uninformed buyers, because an informed buyer would never buy the ship. For a classy (and custom) interior (with the same core amenities) better dps, better cargo, more gameloops, and a utility hardpoint we have the 315p for 5$ less. For 5$ more we get the titan, with the same cargo space, 2 entrances, much better damage, and a cargo bay that can ferry a vehicle. For 10$ more you can get the nomad, better in EVERY way besides the vulnerable open air cargo. For 2 less scu you get the syulen, better dps, equal in combat due to size, but requires comfort with awkward landings. It's the worst in its category of enhanced starter ships in EVERY metric.

A "one off" doesn't mean a damn thing. How long has the 890 been in game? Be honest, the Polaris was added because of economic pressure. It was a business decision, not a game content decision.

White Knighting at its best

Game Developers need to understand that PVE players are what make games now a days. An if PVE is not the focus point you will start to bleed player base and then your game becomes a dead game. Although PVP is fun concept not many player if not most players are big on PVP. Players more so now a days are starting to lean more and more towards PVE then PVP, making any PVP game very hard to maintain as sooner or later there will be less players there to support PVP content. So online game developers need to start focusing on their PVE players more then their PVP players. Because its the PVE players that will be the reason why their game makes it or fails.

The Space Penguin! 😍Remember when it could take down a Hammerhead? I like the Intrepid. It's a roleplay ship, more than the Titan. I would have been interested if they had stuck two S3 weapons side by side. But the "do it all" and practicality of the Titan is just so superior for the current gameplay! And I mean come on...how cute is the space Penguin??? 😍

the intrepid is probably my new fav starter looks wise its weird but its got a bed for logouts and its got a sink toilet and sink and shower for when hygiene comes into play a little kitchen for food prep and table to eat fridge and a weapons locker and storage and my favorite thing about it 1.2 scu of quantum fuel so it travels farther then most other smaller ships its got the same gas tank as a c1 for goodness sake and it has 8 scu of cargo and its only down side if ya can call it that is 1 size 4 gun with 2 size 1 missiles and 1 size 1 shield should have 2 size 1 shields but i digress. while under gunned if your looking for weapons in the first place starters are not the ships your looking for but 1 size 4 is nice enough for my style of play I'm more of a explorer type I am extra hyped for pyro and all ill be able to go and do but yea simply put the best starter in my opinion checks all my boxes for needs and wants

It's like Crusader took the hab of the Cutter Rambler and cargo space of the Avenger Titan and made an in-between. But I agree with most people, the price point shouldn't be that high. That doesn't make sense. It's a proper starter starter and should be priced as such.

Brilliant video.

i like this ship. it´s a crusader 300i version :)

my gripe with bigger ships (100m and more) is that once all sorts of systems will come in you won't be able to use them anymore as a solo player simply because there is no crew AI and you won't be able to make the funds necessary to even maintain the ship, basic refueling alone will cost fortunes and when you can't simply destroy and reclaim the ship anymore it will be ugly. and i blame CIG because they supported the notion that yes indeed big ships will be viable for solo players because they will have ai systems in place that manage the whole maintenance work. now those people who bought big ships (and i think the majority who bought these ships planned to be the only real player in them) are fucked. Imagine spending thousands in ships only to end up with not affording to take them out of the hangar and instead just grind with your 30-40m starter. its not yet a major issue because everyone still can rp with their big ships since you dont have to run around them and do stuff to maintain them. But once all this stuff comes in, shit will hit the fan.

I can't repeat this enough times. If you're playing this game that needs a PC worth thousands of dollars and hours of time per session, yet your concern in the game is practicality and practicality alone, so much that the only thing that matters for a ship to you is gun size and cargo capacity and how well it makes money, then, you really have your priorities mixed up. And you're playing the wrong game. This game is made to fulfil the desire of people who wanted to experience various kinds of life of star citizens, including things like luxury touring and alien ship enthusiast. If you don't have such desires that's fine, but if you see everything that isn't completely practical money-making to be pointless and actively complain about those aspects of the game, then you really shouldn't be here. Might as well ask CIG to ask magic spells

Did my boy just smack talk CRUZ?????

"Internal access to components" needs a disclaimer or asterisk. We don't even know if they will be placed in the hab area. All of the ports are smaller than the access ports in the Interpid. Either the Avenger will increase in size again, or they will move them to the outside. Since remember, they can't put them in the cargo hold. The Stalker and Warlock won't have access to them.

It's more expensive than the Titan while being less capable, that's what cooks my goat. If this could transport 12 - 16 SCU, then it would been a viable alternative to the Titan. The Titan is a ship that I had in me fleet for over 10 years now and I intend to keep it, but I do believe its offensive is way too capable for a ship its size, to the point that its questioning the viability of Light Fighters. IMO, the Titan should be 1 x S3 & 2 x S2 or 3 x S3 in terms of armament.

I just tried to impulse CCU my 9 year old Reliant Kore for the Intrepid because of the Interior and cargo capacity. Impossible too do of course because they are both priced the same. But it really is a solid example of how far the game has come.. from a no frills 2 seater B-wing cargo scarab to best looking house on VTOL thrusters in the verse

2 thoughts: 1. even though the price is a bit high on the Nomad, I would still count it as a starter, because while it offers a lot of cargo space, it's not so much that I would consider it to be a viable profession starter for hauling, it's small enough for a single person to control it completely, and it's versatile enough to allow new players access to a number of game loops. 2. yes the Intrepid is better than people give it credit for and not every starter has to outshine earlier starters, but it happens to be so close in price to the Avenger that CIG has to put up with people comparing those two ships in particular. And if we compare those two, we can easily see that the Avenger is sturdier than the Intrepid, has more weapons with a higher total DPS output, is smaller and thus harder to hit, has the same 8 SCU of cargo capacity, has - due ot the cargo bay being a single area rather than seperated into two - more room for vehicles, and still provides a living space as well. The price tag in this case is just not reasonable. Those ships will compete with each other and if the Intrepid isn't better in anything else but style, then it needs a more combative price tag, otherwise it will get overlooked as a viable contender for the starter role. No one will argue that neither the Cutter, nor the Mustang or the Aurora come close to the Avenger, but since all of them are priced way lower than the Avenger, they are still viable to buy as game entry ships. The Intrepid is a viable ship for the warbond price, but not for the regular one unfortunately.

I picked it up to practice engineering at a low cost when it's released. Will be a great trainer for introducing friends to the game.

Three things should define the value of a Starter: Flexibility, Versatility, and Capability. Flexibility is a ship's ability to adapt to changing situations. Versatility is a ship's ability to fulfill multiple roles. Capability is a ship's ability to excel in a given role. The Intrepid is sadly worse in every category compared to the Avenger Titan, with the exception of extended living. At least until they add the arbitrary and artificial demands of "engineering" gameplay by making stuff fail randomly or break down on timescales that are far too short, utilizing disposable fuses that make no sense, and forcing players to engage in gameloops that should be optional or incidental. But more pointedly, the Intrepid feels like a better overall version of the Mustang Beta, a nice one-person camper with some capabilities. It will never outshine the Avenger in its current state, but it is a fair alternative if you aren't looking at doing combat, and it should likely be a long-range or exploration-focused alternative. The Titan isn't a ship someone should necessarily be living out of, while the Intrepid most certainly is.

Not my starter. But you brought up a good point about variety in a menu of starters. It is kind of cool in that way

AS a sc player i dont want to have a ship to begin my journey i want nothing but an ezhab a bit of money an some jobs either on ground or on ships that pay me. That for me where sc should begin not as a ship onwer tbh.

I think if it had a bit more cargo, say 16 SCU, it would fit its role better and set it aside from others.

It's a good ship... it's size makes people compare it to smallish medium ships... but compared to starters, it's very good in terms of capacity and amenities, if not weapons :)

Guys i have a 120month titan pledge, i'm seeing the intrepid for 63 with LTI and a Paint, what do you think about this price and buying it and later doing a ccu on one or other? (plus what you guys think the titan gold pass will bring?)

I love it the way it is. All of the talk about it not being better than the Avenger is B.S. When the Cutter came out I didn't hear anyone complaining about it not being as good as an Avenger. The funny thing is, I love this design, but have a lot of problems with the Avenger. The Avenger looks like a mini shuttle that has been bent in every direction to create as much drag as possible, which drives me nuts. But I don't complain about that because I know many people like that about it. Having said that, I do own an Avenger as well, because it's fun to fly too. ;)

I have been waiting for a Crusader starter for a while now and this is it. It is a premium starter, granted, but for me it's a home away from home that fits with my vibe a lot better than the Titan, which is just a combat platform with a bed and some cargo space. Yes, the ship is an acquired taste, and it looks a little weird. I could say the same thing about the Nomad, which I absolutely despise, but some people love. The shield is weak, and with less weapons than a Titan, I think we should get a larger generator or two if possible. There are issues with the interior as space is used quite poorly in the back... I'm thinking move the engineering terminal and components to one side and make that entire area a cargo bay that drops down with 10 SCUs instead of 8. That with the shield strength gives this little ship the tankiness to avoid pirates and the cargo to warrant actually running small loads. Even with a size four, it's better to run rather than fight. Gives the Intrepid a more robust blockade runner role that justifies the price tag. You don't want that? Go with the smaller cargo ships like the cutter that is a lot riskier to use.

When I see comments about people loving the Intrepid, I get it. I still don't like how it looks, but I can understand why it exists. For me, the ship that finally drove me into this rabbit hole was the original Cutter, and this was *after* I had seen The Pilot's video on the Avenger Titan a few times. I can imagine the Intrepid doing the same for Crusader fans and some people who can appreciate its benefits while deciding that coping with its weaknesses is a good compromise.

This is awesome and I love cargo hauling. I do ask for advice. I am a solo player mostly and have reasonable funds. My first ship was a Titan. My second a Vulture both US $ paid to keep after patches. I like the cargo and mining loop so ok hate the run and gun mode . What’s the third ship to buy for picking the next lane? Cargo is very intriguing or mining or even maybe medical? I have a good sized budget ($400-$600 us) to spend and want to help the community ahead of 4.0. What do you suggest to buy? I mostly run solo but considering joining a group and fill a need?